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...words: "I demurred. I still had no idea of making the army a career. But I figured that as long as I was in I might as well get the best, however little that might be." He thought he had "flunked gloriously": but on July 1, 1901, Sergeant Krueger received his commission as a second lieutenant. Then he began to live & breathe army. He read every military textbook he could find: strategy, tactics, infantry operations, cavalry, artillery, the techniques of river crossings...
...gratitude. The realization that its graduates had much that I did not has spurred me to acquire what I lacked. . . . West Point has probably done more for me than it has for many of you." Both his sons owe their debt direct to West Point: Colonel James Norvell Krueger ('26), recently returned from Northern Ireland, and Colonel Walter Krueger Jr. ('31), at Camp Bowie...
Make and Remake. After an interval in the U.S., and a promotion to first lieutenant, Krueger was back in the Philippines in 1908. The long-nosed, serious-faced young man with the dark hair parted dead center, brushed due east & west, was made a topographical inspector. As head of a mapping party, he rode and tramped up & down, back & forth across the central plain of Luzon. Few men today are more familiar with its military features than Walter Krueger. With the Japanese in possession, Luzon's familiar map requires some changes. Walter Krueger is the man to make them...
Nothing but the Best. The only legends which have grown up around Krueger have their origin in his directness and outward severity. He is as much a stickler for military form as though he were in the Prussian army. His jeep driver in the combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments...
...Krueger, this solicitude has nothing to do with tenderheartedness; it is sound military practice. Says he: "Don't make me out to be a kindly old man, because I'm not." He would rather be thought of as a mean old soldier...